The Buccaneer (1938)

Directors

Cecil B. DeMille

Cast

Fredric March, Franciska Gaal, Margot Grahame, Akim Tamiroff, Walter Brennan, Ian Keith, Anthony Quinn, Douglass Dumbrille, Robert Barrat, Beulah Bondi, Hugh Sothern, Spring Byington, Spring Byington

The story

In the closing stages of the War of 1812, Dolly Madison evacuates the White House as the British Army arrives and burns Washington. Jean Lafitte asks a young woman of good family, Annette de Remy, to marry him, but she asks him to give up his piracy first. He and his pirates set up a trading post in Louisiana in the swamp to sell luxury goods to New Orleans society that they have seized from foreign ships but have to suspend their sales when the governor, Ferdinand Claiborne, who has put a bounty on his head, appears with troops.

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